brian@cavell.UUCP (Brian Wilkerson) (01/10/86)
Could someone please send me pointers to the specification of Common Lisp. I am planning on writing a Lisp interpreter and want it to be compatible with Common Lisp. I know most of the functions already, but would like to see a complete list before I start. Thanks in advance. Brian Wilkerson Programming Languages Group University of Alberta ..!ihnp4!alberta!brian
shebs@utah-cs.UUCP (Stanley Shebs) (01/16/86)
In article <689@cavell.UUCP> brian@cavell.UUCP (Brian Wilkerson) writes: >Could someone please send me pointers to the specification of Common Lisp. >I am planning on writing a Lisp interpreter and want it to be compatible >with Common Lisp. I know most of the functions already, but would like to >see a complete list before I start. Thanks in advance. > >Brian Wilkerson >Programming Languages Group >University of Alberta > ..!ihnp4!alberta!brian As far as I know, there is no formal specification of Common Lisp. I've been working a partial one, but it's very fragmentary. In any case, there are a great many issues that have not been nailed down to everyone's satisfaction, and any *full* formal specification would get obsolete in a hurry. If you want to be CL-compatible, your best bet is to get access to a Symbolics or to Vaxlisp to try out things, and if behavior seems to be inconsistent with Guy Steele's book, to ask on the mailing list. To get on it, send to common-lisp-request@su-ai (there are plenty of Usenet -> Arpanet gateways, but I won't mention any specifically). stan shebs